Author(s): Jim Green

Mental Health

Jim Green has done pioneering work in the area of meditation and mindfulness as an antidote to mental illness, depression and anxiety. 

'The real thing' he writes, needs to try to speak to the 'via negativa', the desert experience and the realisation of poverty of spirit in connection with the event we call depression. While the language of Buddhism has much to say in this territory, Jim Green emphasises that there is great scope to let the Christian word speak alongside this and other ways of being with our silences. 

Like other Bloomsbury Continuum best sellers Waterbugs and Dragonflies, The Death of a Child and The Art of Dying, this is a welcome and instructive guide for those dealing with mental health issues, bereavement and other social problems.